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Discover LudwigThe phrase "affecting disturbing" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to describe something that has an emotional impact, but the combination of the two words is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The film had an affecting disturbing quality that lingered long after the credits rolled."
Alternatives: "emotionally impactful" or "deeply unsettling".
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Such affecting, disturbing, disorienting sculpture cannot stand on the margins of art history.
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B. mōtus, a, um, P. a., moved, affected, disturbed (poet. and in post-class. prose): Ithaci digressu mota Calypso, Prop. 1, 15, 9: dictis, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 23: precibus, Curt.
I found all three books affecting and disturbing.
These negative properties of ROS may also affect vascular molecules, disturbing the choroidal blood flow and inducing hypoxia.
In order to prove a putative link between CVA behavior and fls485 expression, small intestinal mucosa affected with CVA disturbing celiac disease was investigated.
However, population perturbations may constrain adaptability, for example, via enhancing inbreeding, affecting trait heritabilities and disturbing allele composition irrespective of natural selection [ 43– 43].
Still, McCann is affecting as a mother disturbed by her child.
But the degree of misleading information emanating from both Washington and the media about how taxes affect the economy is disturbing.
Some studies have shown that the expansion of this agroindustry affects mutualistic interactions, potentially disturbing the structure and functioning of pollination networks in natural ecosystems9,10,11,12,13,14,15.
One element cannot be disturbed without affecting the others; all elements and aspects of the total system, and the interactions among them, must be considered.
Different cytotoxic effects of AgNPs have been reported in various cell types, indicating that AgNPs affected cell survival by disturbing the mitochondrial structure and metabolism [15, 52, 53].
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